Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 404 Your Majesty, why don't you give the National Defense Forces a full facelift? (seeking a monthly ticket)

The hard-talking Kazakh khantouk, who was quite honest, ran fast and barely took away an army of more than 1 people.

This time [-] went out, but only [-] was returned, and Kazakhs suffered a blood loss.

And when escaping, the insidious Tou Ke did not reveal the news to the Raksha people.

This led to Earl Golovin's forward troops being ambushed by Fuquan.

The shrewd Earl Golovin immediately followed his heart, and after cursing the Kazakhs, he led them back to the Altai Krai.

He had no intention of going head-to-head with the Qing army.

Fuquan didn't pursue either, it was enough to hit this step, and the northwest was basically pacified, and when General Yili's mansion became overwhelmed, it was time to return to the Central Plains and prepare for an all-out war with Ming!
However, the Great Qing Army was indeed ferocious, but Fuquan didn’t know why. For some reason, the fear of the Ming Army pervaded in his heart could not be dispelled (the offensive concept Army Glory buff). You have to apply to Kangxi's younger brother to continue to expand the army and prepare for war.

After running along the main road for nearly half an hour, Su Laocheng's carriage had arrived at the westernmost industrial area of ​​Yingtian Mansion.

The factory buildings in this newly established industrial area are full of chimneys, billowing thick smoke. It is foreseeable that the title of Fog City in the future will belong to Ying Tiancheng.

Most of the factory area is the site of the General Manufacturing Bureau, which has been controlled by Jin Yiwei and the Guards, and no one is allowed to enter or leave easily.

However, there are exceptions to Jin Yiwei's vigilance. For example, the leader of the General Manufacturing Bureau, such as the craftsman Su Laocheng, is definitely one of the exceptions. He quickly entered the factory area.

This factory is very large and divided into several factory areas, so Su Laocheng had to find a worker to ask about the situation, and asked him to take him to Zhu Kezang.

Soon in a huge factory building, Su Laocheng met Zhu Kezang who was directing the work here.

"These noodles must be kneaded with soda ash to achieve sufficient toughness. The noodles must be thin enough and must be thoroughly fried." Zhu Kezang instructed the person in charge of the factory.

"Your Majesty." Su Laocheng hastily stepped forward to greet him.

Looking at Su Laocheng who came in a hurry, Zhu Kezang couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Why are you here again? You come here every day to inquire about the change of clothes, you are endless, right?"

"The emperor forgives the crime."

Su Laocheng was giggling, showing no trace of trepidation: "The emperor said before that the funds were insufficient, but now we are dumping the added weapons to the Qing Dynasty, and the price of a "Made in Holland" matchlock gun is enough to buy two trigger rifles Now, why don't you change all the defense forces? Isn't it too stingy?"

Su Laocheng has always been the person who pays the most attention to the changes in the weapons of the Ming army. The better the weapons of the Ming army, the better they can deal with the Tartars.

"Don't I want to change the equipment? Are you a hen laying eggs for a trigger rifle? The production capacity of the General Manufacturing Bureau is so large, and there are still 10,000+ troops to change. How easy is that? Not to mention the training and wear and tear that need to be replenished. It is necessary for the General Administration of Manufacturing to increase production capacity!"

Su Laocheng said with a smile: "The old minister will go to the Ministry of Households to apply for funds to expand the equipment and factory area of ​​the musket and gunpowder factory!"

Zhu Kezang rolled his eyes, he already knew Su Laocheng's purpose.

Seeing that Zhu Kezang agreed, Su Laocheng was in a good mood, but he was soon attracted by the things in front of Zhu Kezang.

It was a noodle cake ten centimeters square and only as thick as a thumb. The noodle cake was wavy and looked very hard. I don't know what it was for.

Su Laocheng poked his head out of curiosity and asked, "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

"This is instant noodles." Zhu Kezang said: "During the experience of Yujia's personal expedition a few years ago, I found that in the harsh environment, eating is a big problem, so I built this factory and prepared to study instant military rations to supply the army."

"Can the emperor clear up the old minister's doubts?" Hearing that it was related to the army, Su Laocheng suddenly became energetic.

"Of course, come with me." Zhu Kezang beckoned, and led Su Laocheng and others along the production line. Su Laocheng looked behind Zhu Kezang curiously, and found that the royal concubine Carolina was also following her. This is a very strange situation.

For some reason, this woman with the second highest status in the harem of the Ming Dynasty was not taken with her in the palace, but instead followed her to the factory.

Zhu Kezang pointed to the various materials on the production line while walking and said: "The biggest advantage of instant noodles is convenience. In addition to noodles, it also has pre-made seasoning packets, which are wrapped in glutinous rice paper and placed on top of the noodles. Together, you only need to brew it with hot water and eat it.”

"So convenient?" It was the first time Su Laocheng heard that cooking was so convenient.

Zhu Kezang nodded: "Otherwise, how can it be called instant noodles? There are two kinds of packages for this kind of instant noodles. The first one is packaged in oiled paper for ordinary combat troops. They only need to boil hot water in a marching pot to make noodles. .”

"The second type is specially provided for special environmental forces. It is divided into two layers. The inner layer is an iron box, and the outer layer is a cardboard box lined with oil paper. The outer layer is filled with lime powder. When used, the inner layer is Putting cold water or snow is fine, and the outer layer is also stuffed with cold water or snow. When the snow or cold water encounters lime powder, it will heat up. Boil the water in the upper layer, and the noodles will be soaked automatically, and there is no need to heat the water again. "

"Your Majesty's wonderful idea, the veteran admires it very much." Su Laocheng felt that he was listening to the scriptures, he never thought that there was such an easy-to-use military ration, which was simply tailor-made for the army.

Su Laocheng was still admiring, but Zhu Kezang was thinking: It's a pity that there is no polyethylene plastic, otherwise it would be so troublesome to use it.

"Let's make instant noodles in this way first. In addition, we need to study the vegetable drying technology so that there can be soaked vegetables in the instant noodles." Zhu Kezang recalled the practice of later generations and formulated the future research direction.

"Your Majesty, can I let the old minister taste this instant noodles?" Su Laocheng asked.

Zhu Kezang waved his hand: "Of course, anyone who wants to try it can just take a box, this batch of trial production can be eaten freely."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Several officials from the Ministry of Industry brought instant noodles to try, but they all took ordinary instant noodles, and the workers quickly found an iron pot for boiling water and a lunch box for instant noodles, and got busy together. stand up.

Su Laocheng did take a ready-to-eat instant noodle and waited to see if it was fresh after adding water.

Zhu Kezang also handed a box of instant noodles to Carolina: "You should try it too."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Seeing Zhu Kezang's concern, Carolina showed a sweet smile, and quickly followed Su Laocheng's example.

As the lime powder continued to heat up after meeting the water, the whole box was trembling slightly, and it didn't calm down until 3 minutes later.

Zhu Kezang nodded: "It's ready, take out the inner layer and eat it, be careful, it's very hot."

As soon as he heard that it was all right, Su Laocheng took out the inner iron box with a big grin, and grinned his teeth in the end.

　Ask for a monthly ticket to support it, brothers

　　
　
(End of this chapter)